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Nature, like a kind and smiling mother, lends herself to our dreams and cherishes our fancies. - [Nature] No one keeps a secret so well as a child. - [Secrecy] No religion but blasphemes a little. - [Religion] O youth! thou often tearest thy wings against the thorns of voluptuousness. - [Youth] One only needs to see a smile in a white crape bonnet in order to enter the palace of dreams. - [Blandishment] Our acts make or mar us,--we the children of our own deeds. - [Action] People do not lack strength; they will. - [Will] Poverty and wealth are comparative sins. - [Sin] Press on! a better fate awaits thee. - [Perseverance] Progress,--the stride of God! - [Progress] Remembrance of the dead soon fades. Alas! in their tombs they decay more slowly than in our hearts. - [Remembrance] Revery, which is thought in its nebulous state, borders closely upon the land of sleep, by which it is bounded as by a natural frontier. - [Reverie] Revolution is the larva of civilization. - [Revolution] Short as life is, we make it still shorter by the careless waste of time. - [Time] Solitude either develops the mental powers, or renders men dull and vicious. - [Solitude] Strong and bitter words indicate a weak, cause. - [Argument] Take all reasonable advantage of that which the present may offer you. It is the only time which is ours. Yesterday is buried forever, and to-morrow we may never see. - [Present] The English took the eagle and Austrians the eaglet. [Fr., L'Angleterre prit l'aigle, et l'Autriche l'aiglon.] - Napoleon adopted the lectern eagle for his imperial standard, his son was the eaglet [War] The enigma of the nineteenth century. - [Women] The first symptom of true love in a young man is timidity, in a girl it is boldness. The two sexes have a tendency to approach, and each assumes the qualities of the other. - [Love] The greatest happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved, loved for ourselves--say rather, loved in spite of ourselves. - [Love] The heart is a small thing, but desireth great matters. It is not sufficient for a kite's dinner, yet the whole world is not sufficient for it. - [Heart] The man who fights against his own country is never a hero. - [Traitor] The most powerful symptom of love is a tenderness which, a times, becomes almost insupportable. - [Tenderness] The nearer I approach the end, the plainer I hear around me the immortal symphonies which invite me. - [Immortality] Displaying page 3 of 5 for this author: << Prev Next >> 1 2 [3] 4 5
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